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The economic consequences of sanctions (2025)
Thesis
Hillingdon, A. Y. The economic consequences of sanctions. (Thesis). SOAS University of LondonThis thesis focuses on the redistribution of the economic costs of sanctions, utilising formal modelling techniques. The main contribution of this work lies in its analysis of cost transfer and the collateral damages caused by sanctions. In Chapter 1... Read More about The economic consequences of sanctions.
Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US (2025)
Thesis
Beaney, L. C. Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US. (Thesis). SOAS University of LondonThis thesis focuses on the post-revolution generation of Iranian women artists in the US diaspora and examines their engagement with gender and social identities through creative practices against a backdrop of neoliberalism, transnationalism and dig... Read More about Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US.
The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection (2025)
Thesis
Peterson, T. The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection. (Thesis). SOAS University of LondonIn 1897, a British civil servant named Hugh Nevill (1847–97) left colonial Ceylon with a vast collection of local manuscripts. This collection is now held by the British Library in London and is the largest archive of Sri Lankan manuscripts outside o... Read More about The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection.
Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity (2025)
Journal Article
Murau, S., Goghie, A.-S., & Giordano, M. (online). Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity. Journal of Financial Regulation, Article fjaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/jfr/fjaf003Despite the significance of repurchase agreements (repos) in market-based finance, European repo markets remain underexplored. Drawing on monetary hierarchy literature, we make three conceptual arguments. First, we argue that repos’ balance sheet mec... Read More about Encumbered Security? Vertical and Horizontal Repos in the Euro Area and Their Inherent Ambiguity.
Functions of discourses on heresy: The invention of zandaqah in the early Islamic period (2025)
Thesis
Tanaka, Y. Functions of discourses on heresy: The invention of zandaqah in the early Islamic period. (Thesis). SOAS University of LondonThis dissertation attempts to demonstrate that the Arabic word zindīq, an ambiguous appellation to discredit various targets characterized with heretical tendencies (zandaqah), functioned as a rhetorical device through which Muslim authors displayed... Read More about Functions of discourses on heresy: The invention of zandaqah in the early Islamic period.